Objectives: The objective of this study was to verify the correlation between prognostic factors, positive or negative second look laparotomy (SLL) and 5-year survival in patients with ovarian cancer.
Material: Between 1984 and 1993, 178 patients after primary surgery and first-line chemotherapy with complete clinical response underwent second look laparotomy. The correlation between clinical stage and grade of cancers, residual disease, age of patients in two group of patients: with positive and negative second look laparotomy were evaluated.
Objective: Myomas of uterus are the most common mild tumours of uterus. There is often observed the rapid increase of them during the pregnancy and then they could caused complications from 0.3% to 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF10-15% of ovarian epithelial tumors are the borderline ovarian tumors (BOT-s). The prognosis in those cases is excellent with 5-years survival rates in the range of 95% in Stage I. The most of women suffering from BOT-s are young and they have not got any children.
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